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A technical seminar report Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that it is a bonafide record of the technical seminar work entitled REDTACTON Is being submitted by
Seminar Supervisor Mr. P. Sri Ram Chandra, M. Tech, (Ph. D) Assistant Professor, Department of CSE&IT
Head of the Department Mrs. S. RamaSree, M. Tech, (Ph. D) Associate Professor, Department of CSE&IT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
It is with immense pleasure that I would like to express my indebted gratitude to our technical seminar supervisor Mr. P. Sri Ram Chandra, M. Tech, (Ph. D), Assistant Professor who has guided me a lot and encouraged me in every step of the technical seminar work, his valuable moral support and guidance throughout the technical seminar helped me to a greater extent. At the same time, I feel elated to thank our Mrs. S. Rama Sree M. Tech, (Ph. D), Head of Department, CSE&IT for inspiring me all way and for arranging all the facilities and resources needed for my technical seminar. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our beloved Mr. M. Srinivas Reddy, Principal for providing a great support for me in completing my technical seminar and for giving me the opportunity of doing the technical seminar. I am thankful to our College Management for providing all facilities to me for completion of my technical seminar.
RED TACTON
HUMAN AREA NETWORK
ABSTRACT
The ritual of exchanging business cards could become a thing of the past after Japanese researchers devised a way to swap data just through a handshake through a technology named RED TACTON .This advanced technology is used in various fields which is beneficial in our day to day life such as in medical and commercial applications where Red Tacton can provide high value-added communication.
According to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), your whole body is the perfect conductor for electronic data, meaning that information such as music and films could be downloaded in seconds via your elbow. The device uses optical electric field sensors that look for similar electric fields on other bodies. When contact is made, the data goes through the body with a small amount of voltage, winding up in a portable terminal such as a mobile .The Red Tacton chips will be embedded in machines and contain a transmitter and receiver built to send and accept any form of data stored in a digital format .The chips can take any type of file such as mp3 music file or mail and convert it into a form that takes the form of digital pulses that can be read and passed through a bodys electric field. The chips in receiver devices read these changes and convert the file back into its original form.
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Introduction Red Tacton Prototypes Features of Red Tacton Advantages and Disadvantages Potential Applications
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2.1 How Red Tacton Works 2.2 Mechanism of Communication with Red Tacton 2.3 Red Tacton and Transceivers 4.1 Touch 4.2 Broad Band and Interactive 4.3 Any Media 6.1 One to one services 6.2 Intuitive operation of personal information 6.3 Device personalization 6.4 New behavior patterns 6.5 Security applications
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1. INTRODUCTION
RED TACTON was developed on 30 August 2005 by a seven-person research team led by Yuichi Kado, executive manager of the Smart Devices Laboratory at NTT's Microsystems Integration Laboratories, in Atsugi, west of Tokyo. The initial ways for the data transmission is done through wired networks. The speed of transmitting data is in terms of kilobytes per second and the accuracy is affected by the non linearity and disturbances of the media (That is in wires). Later this task is performed by wireless networks. The speed is not much accelerated but the accuracy is developed. To attain high speed and accuracy a new concept of data transmission is coming into existence that contains human surface area as a media. The powerful and minute electric field present on the human surface can be used as media for transmission of data. This typical task is achieved by using the device REDTACTON. Using a transmitter embedded in, say, a PDA, REDTACTON sends a 5-volt pulse along the surface of the body. The human body shunts most of this electricity to the ground, resulting in a weak electric field that can be modulated to carry signals. The receiver is located either on another part of the bodya component of a hands-free headset, perhapsor nearby, say, in an acquaintance's PDA. As it senses modulations in the electric field, the receiver decodes them to recover the data.
2. RED TACTON
Red- Warmth, T- Touch, and Acton- Action stands for RED TACTON. NTT combined Touch and Action to coin the term Tacton, and then added the word Red a warm color to emphasize Warm and Cordial communications, creating the name Red Tacton. Instead of relying on electromagnetic waves or light waves to carry data, RED TACTON uses weak electric fields on the surface of the body as a transmission medium. RED TACTON is a new Human Area Networking technology that uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high-speed network transmission path. Technically, it is completely distinct from wireless and infrared. A transmission path is formed at the moment a part of the human body comes in contact with a RED TACTON transceiver. Using RED TACTON, communication starts when terminals carried by the user or embedded in devices are linked in various combinations according to the user's natural, physical movements. Communication is possible using any body surfaces, such as the hands, fingers, arms, feet, face, legs or torso. REDTACTON works through shoes and clothing as well.
Fig 2.1 shows a person opening a door with the help of an RED TACTON device.
Fig 2.3 shows the various electric fields on the surface of our body induced by the RED TACTON device. Only a portion of the induced electric field is sensed by the receiving RED TACTON device. The remaining electric fields are dissipated to the ground.
3. PROTOTYPES
NTT has made three types of prototypes Red Tacton Transceiver(PC card type) Communicationspeed:10Mbps Protocols: TCP/IP Communication method: Half-duplex. Interface: PCMCIA
Red Tacton Transceiver(Hub type) Communicationspeed:10Mbps Protocols :TCP/IP Communication method : Half-duplex Interface: RJ45
(under constructions)
4.1 TOUCH
Touching, gripping, sitting, walking, stepping and other human movements can be the triggers for unlocking or locking, starting or stopping equipment, or obtaining data. Using Red Tacton, communication starts when terminals carried by the user or embedded in devices are linked in various combinations through physical contact according to the human's natural movements.
Communication speed can deteriorate in crowded spaces due to a lack of bandwidth (wireless LAN)
Device drivers can be downloaded instantly and executable programs can be quickly sent. (REDTACTON)
Fig 5.1
Very secure Data Transmission i.e., there is no problem of hacking since medium is our individual body. No need to insert smart cards, connect cables, tune frequencies, or any of the other inconveniences usually associated with today's electronic devices. Transmission speed does not deteriorate in congested areas where many people are communicating at the same time.
DISADVANTAGES
Very high Initial Cost. High Sensitivity of Receiver is required. Complexity in Design
6. POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS
6.1 One to one services:
With the ability to send attribute data from personal information devices worn on the body to computers embedded in the environment, one-to-one services could be implemented that are tailored to the individual needs of the user.
Just sitting in the seat triggers the car to load all its presets as the way you like.
The seat position and steering wheel height adjust to match the driver just by sitting in the car. The driver's home is set as the destination in the car navigation system .The stereo plays the driver's favorite song.
Red Tacton can carry music or video between headsets, mobile devices, mobile phones, etc. Users can listen to music from a Red Tacton player simply by putting on a headset or holding a viewer.
Wireless headset.
Red Tacton can carry music or video between headsets, mobile devices, mobile phones, etc. Users can listen to music from a Red Tacton player simply by putting on a headset or holding a viewer.
Fig6.8 Wearable
Wireless Contactless IC
wireless cards
Transfer speed (Can DVD-quality images be sent?) Performance deterioration during periods of congestion (Simultaneous use by many people in small spaces) Duplex data transfer (Interactive processing) Data configuration at initiation of communications (Registration of ID profiles, etc) Tasks required at time of each communication (Adjustment of contacts and optical axis) E E P E P E E E P P E E E E E P E E P P E E E E E P P P P E
8. CONCLUSION
The need for artificial body implants to communicate with each other as well as to report back to a portable device could have quite some value. In fact, according to other researchers, the most important application for body-based networking may well be for these type of communications within, rather than on the surface of, or outside, the body. Red Tacton technology is expected to dominate Bluetooth technology in the future. Red Tacton technology could put the use of cables to an end. The problem faced by the Red Tacton technology is the cost of development. This technology brings a new dimension of communication which effectively links the user to anyone he wants to communicate. Since it provides high speed communication, it can provide seamless service wherever, whenever and whoever uses it.We conclude that, when we compare Red Tacton with other technology present today it can give a better performance over others.And we can say that to connect the network with in short distances Red Tacton is best. In this technology there is no problem of hackers as our body is itself a media.
9. REFERENCES
[1]www.redtacton.com/en/info/index.html [2]www.masternewmedia.org/2003/10/19/wireless_body_networkingat10.htm [3] discuss.itacumens.com/index.php?topic=12720 [4] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red Tacton [5] http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/2596 Digit Magazine [6] www.Scribd.com/doc/117603u/Red Tacton